erratic

this freaks me out.

cows in space
(not because they want to be)

leave our udders alone !

> Shinto (“the way of the gods”) is Japan’s earliest religion – the religion of the hunters and gatherers and rice farmers who first came to Japan.

> According to Shinto belief, nature is filled with spirits or “kami” which influence the lives of humans, and therefore sacrifices and respect are given to them. The Japanese once believed that they were descended from the gods and the emperor was a direct descendant of the Sun Goddess.
(source)

The Torii (o-torii) is an entryway into a spiritual place. An exaggerated perch for the gods’ fax machines with wings. Also a token of gratitude from those with wealth aplenty.

It is a fitting historical example of the aesthetic that tickles my asian architecture fetish. I love pointy eaves and such.

This must be why I believed Mr. Ed was a Zebra.

It’s the sound of air leaking from the web2.0 gas bag.
Odeo cuts staff by half, Alex gives the little buddy the kiss of death godfather 1.0 style.

What next? Webmmunity? wwwall ( pronounced WALL )? shareweb? contributeweb? partake.all?

Ok, now it’s just ridiculous (or maybe has been for longer than can be justified).

too many div’s and things go POOF!

When you have a styled div set with an id inside another div on safari at least. I’m going to explore this further, but it seems at this point I’m stacking my nodes too deep, MEANING if a styled div is inside another div that is replaced by an rjs template which has a visual effect to appear the styled stuff inside the div inside the one affected by the javascript response will remain hidden while all the stuff around it will pop into view. Selecting on the screen around the blank areas will reveal the content. Use span’s or class declarations to avoid the same 4 hours of frustration I just had. Of course this could all be wrong and I’m foolishly pointing west when the true way is north. In any case it wasn’t working as expected and now it is so I am of the mind that I solved my problem, be it maybe for only a moment.

remember to float the containers holding the floats

And clear your floats. Boxes are a pain. Tables are ugly. Love thy stacked attributes.

That is all.

_"My caution is that companies shouldn’t be dashing out to create expensive original content for a small audience – unless they gain value from being seen as innovative."_ link Web 2.0/Podcasting content need not be expensive to be creative and original. If you think you need six figure agency contracts to get creative, valuable content you should probably retire and move to Florida and eat some prunes and enjoy the mid-afternoon Wheel of Fortune reruns on tvland.

This is awesome! I foresee a future where we can aggregate ill will and pettiness and envy/jealousy and have it delivered while it's still steaming. [this is good]

Oh boy do I suck like a black hole. My bird flu typo theme had some major issues in the default.rhtml. So if you've downloaded it grab it again and trash the old one. Now Working: RSS Feeds; ajax comments; ajax admin menus...

Essential understanding: In php str_replace and preg_replace do function similarly yet if you want exact matches you have to specify your regexp pattern with serious prejudice lest you match ANY and ALL partial or exact string matches and fubar your sweet logic with redundant nasties. I consider knowing this progress. Next up is understanding the hows and whys of stringing methods in ruby... Feet don't fail me now!